#dunbeath

[livesunique]

Dunbeath Castle, Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland

[thesilicontribesman]

Dunbeath Iron Age Broch, Caithness, Scotland

[scotianostra]

Neil M Gunn, author of The Silver Darlings and many other books and short stories, died passed away on January 15th 1973

Gunn was a novelist, critic and dramatist working at the height of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Unlike his contemporaries Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn choose to write largely in English.

Gunn worked in the Civil Service in London and Edinburgh before returning to the live and work in the Highlands, his first novel, The Grey Coast, was published in 1926, but it wasn’t until 1937 and the success of Highland River, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, that he was able to give up his job with Customs and Excise to write full-time.

Highland River marked the end of a trilogy of novels exploring the history of the Highlands, following Sun Circle and Butcher’s Broom. The following year Gunn sold his house in Inverness and bought a twenty-seven foot motor boat, The Thistle, and took his wife and brother on a three-month sailing cruise around the islands of Scotland.

His final book was the autobiography The Atom of Delight, published in 1956. He wrote a number of essays, which have been collected into anthologies.

Gunn died on this day in 1973, and the memorial sculpture, Kenn and the Salmon, as seen in the photo, was unveiled at Dunbeath Harbour in 1991, a second memorial, above Strathpeffer, erected by the Neil M. Gunn Memorial Trust. He is also remembered with a stone in Makars’ Court, Edinburgh.

Find more about the man here https://neilgunntrust.org/

[scotland-europe]

One photo I forgot to post. This lovely "home" is part of the Dunbeath Heritage Centre, but not on the market presently

[ruthlivingstone]

523 Dunbeath to Berriedale

[This walk was completed on Saturday 18th May, 2024] Today, I will be mainly road-walking along the notorious A9. But, first, I follow a minor road under the overpass, and take a path up the hill. Great views. Dunbeath doesn’t seem very large from up here. Continue reading 523 Dunbeath to Berriedale

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Haunting Castle in the Fog . Van Life Tour of Scotland .

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[vincentdunn]

Dunbeath Castle occupies a spectacular position on the north-east coast of Scotland, surrounded by dramatic coastal landscapes. The vast estate is now on the market for £25 million. Take a look inside…

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Comprising 28,500 acres of truly spectacular topography, 12.5 miles of river flowing from source to mouth, 4 hill lochs and lochans and about four miles of rugged coastline, the estate represents an unparalleled combination of historic architecture, a unique landscape recognised globally and one of Scotland's great coastal wildernesses.

Dunbeath, Caithness, KW6 6EY | Property for sale | Savills

[thesilicontribesman]

Dunbeath Iron Age Broch, Caithness, Scotland

[scotianostra]

On November 8th 1891 the author Neil M Gunn was born.

Neil Miller Gunn, was born in Dunbeath, a small fishing and crofting community in Caithness, North East Scotland. Although he was educated in Galloway, he grew up with a love of the Highlands and Highland culture and, as an adult, he returned to the North East to live and work.Gunn, the son of a fisherman, was born at a time when the herring fishing industries of Scotland were beginning to die out, and much of Highland culture was in decline, with a falling population and growing unemployment.

Gunn saw that Highland culture was also under threat as the old ways were forgotten, and fewer people spoke Gaelic or Scots, so traditional songs and stories were beginning to disappear. Reflecting this trend, Gunn himself spoke only English, although in his writing he used the rhythms and syntax of Gaelic speech to give a sense of the people and communities he depicted.

For a number of years, Gunn worked in London for the Civil Service before joining the Customs and Excise in 1911. Returning to the Highlands he worked as an Excise Officer until 1937, when increasing financial success allowed him to become a full-time writer. This writing also extended to journalism and, in the 1930s and early 40s, he wrote articles for publications such as the Scots Magazine. In this he argued that the Highland way of life was worth preserving and should be supported to stop it disappearing altogether, a position which he also expressed politically through his involvement with the SNP.

Gunn is best known, however, for his novels, the first of which, The Grey Coast was published in 1926. His early novels reveal a bleak, often harsh, portrait of the communities he knew so well, although through time his fiction shifted to reveal a more hopeful vision of Highland experience. These more positive portraits include Highland River , The Silver Darlings and Young Art and Old Hector , novels which remain his most widely-read work.In 1956 he published his final book, The Atom of Delight, a spiritual autobiography which traced his interest in Zen Buddhism.

Neil M Gunn died on January 15th 1973 at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness and is buried beside his wife, Jessie Dallas Frew at Mitchell Hill Cemetery Dingwall.

Dunbeath Heritage Centre in Caithness houses a permanent exhibition of his life and work. His book, Whisky and Scotland is still a popular read among Whisky aficionados, although I have read some comments saying it needs updated, well unless he somehow rises from the dead I’m afraid it will not happen. The statue in the pic, called Kenn with Salmon, after his novel, was unveiled in 1991 at Dunbeath. He is also remembered at on Lawnmarket Royal Mile Edinburgh with the quote “Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep”

Read more about him here https://scotchwhisky.com/.../whisky.../20306/neil-m-gunn/

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Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland

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Dunbeath, Scotland (by UltraPanavision)

[ruthlivingstone]

522 Latheron to Dunbeath

[This walk was completed on Friday, 17th May, 2024] I cycle back to the cemetery in Latheron. The old chapel is now the Clan Gunn heritage centre – but it is closed. Chain my bike behind a public toilet (also closed) and set off for my road-walk to Dunbeath. Continue reading 522 Latheron to Dunbeath

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livesunique  -  DUNBEATH Castle, Dunbeath, Scotland

[louisebichan]

Dunbeath, Scotland, June 2017

[paolobrand]

A cornucopia of old style crofters’ tools for working the land. #crofting #crofter #croft #work #tools #dunbeath #sutherland #highlands #hame #scotland2019 #nofilter (at Dunbeath) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1laOeCFQa_/?igshid=1qachkg8gzzva